Whispering Verse

"Sorry, what did you say?"

The word "Scholar of Original Sin" is not a Delarian language. Shade reacted for a moment before he could barely understand the meaning:

"What is a Scholar of Original Sin?"

"Then you're not."

The strange old man shook his head and led Shade back to the hall:

"Your sins are high enough to go to the highest floor. Guest, please come with me and you will get what you want."

After saying that, he stopped talking to Shade and walked towards the stairs again. Shade immediately followed him. If he walked around without a guide in the [Sin Mansion], he would be easily attacked by the things living here.

The interior decoration style of this building is quite uniform, somewhat similar to what those old aristocratic houses looked like after they were equipped with gas pipes. The golden decoration on the stairs and the oil paintings on the cracked walls all show the grandeur of when this was an ordinary house.

The red carpet on the ground made Shade feel strongly uneasy. Because in the observation of [Echo of Blood], there is a red halo almost everywhere on this carpet, which means that this carpet is almost dyed with blood.

Not long after, they arrived at the third floor, with corridors extending from the stairs to the left and right. The corridor has windows on one side and rooms on the other. There is a rusty yellow metal number on each door, but there is nothing on those door numbers.

But before the old man with the lantern could lead Shade to choose a direction to turn, the ground suddenly shook.

"earthquake?"

It's not a very strong vibration, and it doesn't even affect your stability on the ground. However, as the building itself shook, Shade heard what seemed to be an explosion coming from the second floor. At the same time, in the terrifying portraits on the wall, all the faces were looking downwards, as if there was something wrong downstairs.

"What's going on? Is there another earthquake in Mount Sikal? Or is there an accident in this house?"

[New changes have occurred in the Sin Mansion. While the ground is shaking, the malice here has deepened. 】

"This way."

The old man holding the lantern did not pay attention to the strange vibration, and Shade's inquiry did not receive an answer.

He led Shade to the left, opened the third door and motioned for him to enter and wait:

"The traders from the mansion will be here soon, please wait a moment, guest."

When Shade walked in, the door was closed by the hunched old man.

Shade looked at the room. It was a large bedroom, with a four-poster bed hung with pink curtains and gauze, a desk, a wardrobe and other furniture that looked like antiques. There are even two small doors on one side, leading to the bathroom and cloakroom. Shade has seen similar room structures in Miss Carina's manor and the Aurora mansion in Coldwater Port.

The room was still dark, with only the gas lamp on the desk on. The shape of the gas lamp was quite classical, completely different from the popular style of 1853. Shade did not go to the desk, but turned around and held the door handle. After testing, he found that the door was locked, but if he used the [Door Key] to open the door, it could be opened.

"The next step is to wait. Judging from the experience of the ring wizards who have walked out of here in the past, a trader will ask me what I want to get from the mansion after a while. And among the middle options that should not be paid attention to in the list, there is the option of increasing one's own sins. The price, the option to get out of here.”

Thinking in his mind, he walked towards the desk. There was a piece of white paper lying upside down on the table under the desk lamp. Xia De was stunned. When he entered here just now, there seemed to be nothing under the desk lamp.

My eyes have caught the mark on the paper, which uses very thin pencil lines to outline a long-haired woman sitting in a rocking chair.

The woman's body occupies less than one-fifth of the paper, but her hair occupies almost one-third of the paper. Because it was only outlined with simple lines, the woman's face only had simple facial features. When Shade looked at that face, that face actually smiled.

"Um?"

A sense of fatal crisis made Shade subconsciously raise the sword in his hand. This time, he reacted faster than the sword in his hand.

Bang!

The end of the jet-black long hair actually shot out of the painting, trying to penetrate Shade's forehead like an arrow, but was blocked by the blade of the Night Watchman's sword.

"No, doesn't the information say that the current stage is completely safe? But I haven't done anything illegal!"

Thinking in his mind, he pierced the air with his left hand, pulled out the bright yellow sword, and cut off the long black hair that wanted to wrap up the night watchman with a twist of his hand. Compared to a big sword, this kind of long sword is more suitable for such actions.

Shade quickly retreated while squinting his eyes at the piece of paper:

"Trigger the fire!"

The basic spell is to ignite fire. As Shade's Ring Warlock level increases, it can no longer just make the page smoke. Moreover, because the [Sin Mansion] improved Shade's strength, and the elemental wine he drank at the God's Wine Party greatly enhanced the power of the spell, the piece of paper with the whispering element was instantly ignited.

But as black smoke billowed out, a withered blue hand actually stretched out from the page:

"This is obviously not the normal transaction process of [Sin Mansion]. What is going on? Is the relic out of control?"

The chain protruded from Shade's right sleeve and wrapped around the hilt of the sword in his hand. [Night Watch] shook violently, as if disgusted with the [Sin Chain], but did not break free in the end.

"Ah!"

He threw the silver sword suddenly, and the blade accurately penetrated the palm of the hand that stretched out from the page.

A sharp wail almost pierced Shade's eardrums. Black ink flowed from the cyan hand, and the gushing ink even extinguished the burning page.

The hand suddenly broke away from the sword blade, and the white paper with black edges was lifted up and flew high into the sky while swinging violently. As the page trembled violently, long black hair surged out of the page like a river.

"Although I like girls with long black hair, it's obviously not like this."

Pulling the Sin Chain to retract the long sword, he quickly retreated to the wall to avoid the long, squirming hair that had fallen to the ground. This is an entity. It is difficult to cause much damage with bursts of moonlight. However, the other magic arts of the moonlight series currently mastered by Shade do not have the ability to cause large-scale atmospheric damage, so——

The whistle blows and the bells chime. In the raging steam mist, a corner of the life ring was revealed, and the [Witch's Light] spiritual rune flashed with brass aura:

"Feliana's Witch's Light!"

He stretched out the fingers of his right hand forward, and the golden light illuminated the turbulent black hair in a manner that melted everything. As the black smoke continues to rise, the hair disappears quickly.

At the same time, Shade raised his left hand and drew the light of the silver moon on the paper in the sky. The moonlight cut off the hair wrapped around the page and disappeared, but then the [Night Watch] was thrown out again.

But this time, the sword blade completely penetrated the paper.

There was another piercing scream. At the same time that Shade had tinnitus and headache, the paper exploded into pieces and the black hair disappeared. After the sword fell to the floor, the place became quiet again.

The chain contracted on the ground and made a clattering sound. The sword hilt retracted into Shade's sleeve along with the chain, and was held by Shade again.

He watched around the room vigilantly to prevent other attacks, but there were no other abnormalities in the room.

Only the pieces of paper that were spontaneously burning on the ground proved that something had indeed attacked Shade just now.